Recently, we were enjoying a relaxing weekend and decided cooking wasn’t part of the plan. On Saturday, we wanted an Indian restaurant. We didn’t know where the nearest one was, so I pulled out my G1 and googled the area we were in, plus the type of restaurant we were looking for. As it turns out, we were just round the corner from one, that we had walked past several times.

Of course, after saying I had not experimented with the share feature on Google Reader, I went and clicked on the button and now I’m hooked. It’s like bookmarking things on Delicious but so much easier! I’ve only been using it for about 12 hours, but already it’s the best thing since the last best thing and before the next best thing. There’s even a selection of my latest shared items in the column to your right - displayed in all their Wordpress Widgety wonder.

I was converted to Google Reader a while ago, after I decided I needed to be able to check my RSS feeds while I was out and about. Until then, I had happily used FeedDemon, which then became Net News Wire when I switched to a Mac. It didn’t take long for me to be convinced that Google reading is the way to go, because: If you’re on a site, you can click the subscribe to feed button, add to Google and you’re done.

I have been waiting for a decent way to sync my feeds to the desktop from Google Reader, whilst still being able to keep up with them out and about. My only problem with this so far is that I forgot I already had NNW installed, and my two sets of feeds have merged somewhat. It’ll take a while to sort, but I have a feeling it will be worth it.

This is one of the best blog entries I’ve read in a while, despite the fact that it is in the form of an image, which I would normally frown upon. The topic in hand is the progression from terabytes to the next level petabytes. It took me a while to get my head around this at first. A terabyte is a thousand gigabytes, a petabyte is a thousand terabytes. So, in other words, quite large.

It seems like every five minutes now, there is a new feature to Google, or a new search engine making it’s debut. They all proclaim to be the next big innovation in searching, and some will even revolutionise the way we find information on the web. I have already taken a quick look at Wolfram Alpha, which says it is not trying to be a Google killer. Mahalo has always been a different kind of search - curated by humans to provide the best and most relevant links for your topic.

There are a plethora of Twitter apps for mobile phones, and I know the iPhone is over-run with them. As a G1 user, the Android platform has less options, but there are a few worth looking at. The one I have settled on is Loquacious, which is actually a paid for app. It’s only a couple of dollars, though, so that didn’t put me off. There’s a 14-day fully featured demo, and I can honestly say the one thing that really sold it for me is that when you type a tweet - there’s a character countdown!

A couple of days ago, I talked about Wolfram|Alpha, which is making its way in the knowledge search universe. On a different search engine note, I found yesterday that Google wouldn’t load for me, and for a good few seconds, I was completely stumped as to where else to go. Google is so integrated into my online experience and the little box in the top right of my browser makes searching so easy.

The Wolfram|Alpha search engine went live today, and it’s really, really cool. It’s not meant to be any kind of competition to Google, and in fact, links off to the Goog if you want to find web links related to your search term. Wolfram’s mission is to collate knowledge and give you hard facts about a given subject. For example: Searching for my own name gives me information on how popular it is, age distribution, expected number of people alive with that name, etc.

I use the alarm on my phone to wake up of a morning, so was happy to see how easy to use the G1 alarm clock was. I even got to choose a sound! The first time I set it, at midnight, I thought it would be hilariously brilliant to choose the rooster alarm noise to wake up. It wasn’t so funny in the morning. Also, my boss has the rooster as his normal phone’s ring tone and it just brings back bad memories now.